SCIENTIFIC LOGGING BEING PIONEERED ' Hit 3 through the Co' Wat The steam power plant at Co- h T,hc Columb;a Ct Prince Rupert Dailv News Monday. June 11, 1951 lumbla Cellulose mill consists of lslaml'V0 levtil Columbia Cellulose First Large Long Term Program : two boilers which have a con- Power piant I tinuous rating of 180.000 pounds "rag and ' iruin i't-r nuur. - "veiarealh. eSSaqe departments. With the first Forest Management Licence ever issued in this Province, Columbia Cellulose Company Ltd., is pioneering the first large long-rang? scientific logging program in the history of British DE LIVERY Columbia. r BY AIR FREIGHT d rivers, makin; it possible for : Columbia Cellulose foresters to get to any blighted or wind damaged area quickly. The timberland assigned to the ( Company by the Government lies in a part of the Province which, j until now. has betn largely un- i explored. Much of it has iiever j belorc been penetrated by white ; l i In addition to protecting ex-'..stint stands, the Company is taking detailed inventory of thes-j forests, scouting which tracts are jXhst and should be out first to r.ake way for new growth. This 'one term nroiert, with men. The principle behind the C-lumbia Celluloje forestry program is that cutti:ig must balance regrowth. The Company is practising "patch logging," in t which trees are cut in blocks, statistics co-related in detail leaving surrounding blocks with maps of the area. MAI PING THE TIMBER At Khutzeymateen. Columbia Cellulose first coastal longing camn. Forester W. A. MBroom maps ou: areas u,tj(.cuw Tne company practices "patch logging" in which trc? aifcfflt in blccks, leaving surrounding blocks standing to Drovide natural reseedine and refoi . station. Blorks to be cut 0W in the British standing to provide natural re-j Columbia Cellulotj li seeoint and re-forestation. Next un'que position among lire minntil nut in gHvotim u-ith tho ilrlo k stnnri hf-mtr rut first ' Vfar'S Cutting budget Will be Columbia pulp mills of having been asigned both coastal and in " " "2C.onc.000 cubic feet. regrowth.' to make way for I. I; I Iwarli : welcome ft V 'If' F cm !:,) l'.-ci ht for til.- II, terior tracts. Hemlock, balsam md spruce , the most useful specter for the manufacture of high aipha pulp, account for about 88 nt rcent of the whole area. About 75 percent of the timberland assigned to the Campany is in the interior of the Province. In the great trench which exists northward L-yond the Naas river. ONE COASTAL CAMP One coastal logging camp Is ic in operation at Khutzeyma-teen Inlet, approximately 65 miles up the British Columbia, coast from Prince Rupert. Other coastal camp:, will be opened and o;e.-ated simultaneously. Permanent headquarters for Columbia Cellulose interior logging Luti! now. "perpetual logging" ha- been comparatively rare in North America 'it was lir;t practiced in the 1930s in th.- Nirth-western United Stales. In European countries where conservation has reached a high level, I'.ie law requires at L:;.st one ac-tr: diied government f orestt r for ( very thousand acres cf timber-land. In llnthh Columbia, with its 75OU0.0U0 acres of fores:, it w ulil b. impossible for the Government to find or siijipoi t a proportionate force. t The Forest Act A.-.icndment Ait ol 1947 was designed to al-traef private industry into doing ihe job which the government ould not do. An unusually for- v,; fo:. -r i;: 4 to all New-comers in PRINCE RUPERT ond a "Howdy" to our old Frirnds Timber Cruii 9 Acriol Photorrop!iy Stlf),)! DlOOjiiliQ fid iing ond I luntiuq Portia r ',,1.J 1" 1. ' .11,1 J o RATE.'! For INFORMATION ItESEIiVATK' PHONE 476- ward looking piece of legislation, ! i'im ui ic.racr, j m it provided for the Forest Man- : fJom thf acif ,1C eta.n " th,e banks of tne 6kea r'ver- Bo'h agement Licence. With this : licence, Columbia Cellulose has , "mPs "f ,a far cry fr,,m ,the of fabletl "unkhouse old-fur-cient been assigned forest lands suffi- i to supply the needs of its nace ated' ,'tney tlnclude hot ! and coId runn n8 water; a loe Prince Rupert plant, while, for ' in dormitory block, and at-lor its part, it assumes the obligation every I tractlvt rooms wnlch are shared protecting and harvesting the b' Uv" men- forests. Columbia Cellulose engineers j A full line of Qualify Baked Goods I am glad cf the opportunity of extending very hearty congratulations to the Celanes? Corporation of America at this particular time becaura of the fact that they are opening their huge plant in the Prince Rupert area, which will mean so much to th? industrial development of that section of British Columbia. It Is evidence of the interest that is taken by ouHue capital In the resources of British Columbia in tlie first place, and the stability of its people In the second place. It indicates further that the Province will progress and can progress as long as wo operate under a free enterprise system which means wo ore denendent upon the initiative and ability of the people th'.'mstlvt'j to prog: ess and develop our country. HERBERT ANSCOMB, Minister of Finance. Queen Charlotte Airlines I VAN'S BAKERY PRINCE RUPERT j Perple who came Irom various ; parts of the country to work for i Columbia Cellulose have found 611 Third Ave. W. Prince Rupert arc now building: a road north or Terrace, just west of the Kitsumgallum River and Lake. This road, expected to extend twenty-four miles within the next 18 ir-.inths, will ultimately connect the Skeena -and Naas Prince Rupert climate extremely pleasant and agreeable much different than manjTof them might have been led to believe. Eesl WL omen We liter. ear oni ' DURING THE 30 YEARS we pion cered a grocery business and sew the people of Prince Rupert, have kept faith in the development of this city with the many outstanding industrial potentialities. We believe Prince Rupert finally is facing th ginitiiif, of a vast expansion era, D.ninc; tlie f" By LOIS STEVENS 1 NEW LO on our in Inure ir.iiis'i-iiM to tin U,;rthv,T.t, and hw ,o,- ., ..rfi,,ti ii.-if o 111 r ncritxl. -' he OLD FRIEND m-ik r.ew friends, tenaciously keep our o'.i it and enitiiuie l.t p.ovl.k the braiul of sal'- rvice that nlea c 1 .-. iM':pU of rRMK UU Many of the giant trees in 'northern British Columbia are destined to become filmy summer dresses . . , handsome decorator fabrics . . . ser-vicable year-'round suits . . . even ladies' unmentionables ! Fact Is, the new Columbia Cel- iulrsj Comany purified pulp mill firPa:pi. d,mand today than ever a Princ.' Rtipcrl is manufactur- jjpfore i iK the baric material for chem- ,.,'. .,.,, , Cela,M!! C-oiiwrat.on of Aai, i.a' yarns txr.ri plastic. It is -iniated tlial th present pro- -rll'a' the larp.est p: Mincer of Uuctio.i capacity of high alpha aevtate yarn on till.-, ci ntincnt pulp ! sufficient raw material U the first such producer to for 20C 000 000 pounds of acetate build its own puip mill. The detain. And tha 's a lot of yarn. ' maud for acetate, for toth peace-Vith the natural fiber market t'me and defen:c purposes, has r,xri and nnu subject to world become so lares that the 0111-ccndilions as well as the normal pany fjlt it must have an as?ur-hazards of crop failure due to ed supply of cellulor.3 to meet tmcci reliable weather condl- this demand. tio;is, the demand for chemical) Thus it is that British C-ilum-fcis is ircrcr.flnrr. Acetate yarn, bia trees will br rerving this eon-a piecisi.m yarn which can be tinent. by providing fine fabrics, controlivd and cngineqred to at controllable prices, for mil-serve a myriad of purpases. is in : lions of people. . Ccal used in the Columbia Collieries Ltd. at Telkwa. 240 Cellulose power plant comes from miles easton tlie Canadian Na-' Irank Dockriil's BiUkivy Valley tional Railways. SUNRISE COMPAt LIMITED We specialize in mail order grocery of Purity Flour and Bucl.erf ield Pi Six.h and Fulton St: eels Prince Rupert, B P.O. Bo' As the vast Columbia Cellulose installation on Watson Island swings into production, the people of British Columbia will recognize an old friend clothed in a new look. High-grade chemical cellulose is not new in British Columbia but the Columbia Cellulose Mill producing it is new and the promising future for the Prince Rupert region becomes possible only because of our old friend '. . . the forests. 4 For over 100 years the forests of British Columbia have served us well. Now, with Columbia Cellulose's giant digestors feeding off a perpetual yield unit Forest Management Licence No. 1 they ore in a position to continue that service in perpetuity I'honco: 28 and 27 aiii ffltHssaaaasE Managed Forests are Good Business! BRITISH COLUMBIA FOREST SERVICE Department of Lands and Forest WE WHO PIONEERED THE TIMBER BUSINESS IN THJS GREAT NORTHWEST COUNT! THE HANSON LUMBER & TIMBER CO. LTD (Here Since 1907) TAKES PLEASURE IN WELCOMING THE ADVENT OF Columbia Cellulose Co. Ltd. . CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES ON THIS AUSPICIOUS OCCASION u 'in Tin n '"' ' I V !! j' i"0"50" T,mbC' LU; bT C'l 'jjT DR. C. D. ORCHARD, Deputy Minister of Forests. HON. E. T. KENNEY, Minister.